Australia Rejects Call to Open Borders, Soften Illegal Immigration Stand
by Simon Kent Australia will not soften its stand against illegal immigrants or refugees seeking asylum and government benefits, a report released on Wednesday shows. Refugees who have been stopped at Australia’s borders are held in offshore detention centres on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island. But rights groups and the left-wing Labor opposition have called on the government to open the doors and let them in, AFP reports. The Australian Human Rights Commission detailed 31 recommendations it said would improve protections for offshore refugees as well as 30,000 others who arrived in Australia before the start of 2014,...
by Simon Kent Australia will not soften its stand against illegal immigrants or refugees seeking asylum and government benefits, a report released on Wednesday shows. Refugees who have been stopped at Australia’s borders are held in offshore detention centres on...
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